Dr. Patricia Beattie Jung Saint Paul School of Theology faculty member

Patricia Beattie Jung

Professor of Christian Ethics and Oubri A. Poppele Professor of Health and Welfare

Phone: 816-245-4838
E-mail: patricia.jung@spst.edu

Education

PhD, Vanderbilt University
MA, Vanderbilt University
BA, University of Santa Clara

I have been called to educate leaders, both lay and ordained, to make disciples of Jesus Christ. Embedded in that ministry is the task of fostering moral discernment with an aim both to renew the church and transform the world. I understand all of my scholarly activities -- my teaching and research projects -- to serve this vocation.

Denomination

Roman Catholic

Discipline or Specialty

Ethics
Health and Wellness Ministries
Human Sexuality and Gender

Representative Courses Taught

Ethics of Forgiveness
Introduction to Christian Ethics
Sexual Issues in Church and Society
Immersion: Multi-Cultural Rural

Recent Publications

Moral Issues and Christian Responses, 8th ed, co-edited with L. Shannon Jung (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2012).

God, Science, Sex and Gender: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Christian Sexual Ethics, Lead editor with co-editor Aana Maria Vigen (Champaign, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2010).

"Catholic Sexual Ethics in the Twenty-First Century," in Prophetic Witness: Catholic Women's Struggles for Reform, Colleen Griffith, ed. (New York: Crossroads Press, 2009), 197-207.

"'Good Sex' and Religion: A Feminist Overview" with Mary E. Hunt, The Journal of Sex Research 46:2-3 (March-June 2009), 156-167.

"The Search for Genuine Consistency," The Consistent Ethic of Life: Assessing Its Reception and Relevance, Thomas A. Nairn, ed. (Maryknoll, MD: Orbis Books, 2008).

Moral Issues and Christian Responses, Seventh Edition, co-editor with L. Shannon Jung (Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, 2003).

Sexual Diversity and Catholicism: Toward the Development of Moral Theology, editor with the assistance of Joseph A. Coray (Collegeville: The Liturgical Press, 2001). Published in Portuguese as Diversidad Sexual e Catholism in 2005.